Articles about 'books'

What would you sacrifice for someone you’ve loved forever?

In the first of a new series of short articles exploring images from around the University, we look at the 12th-century Bury Bible from the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College.

Notes and comments scribbled by Charles Darwin on the pages and margins of his own personal library have been made available online for the first time.

A Cambridge University archaeologist, along with two other researchers in Guernsey, has uncovered a previously unseen archive featuring the testimonies of people who were deported to German prison camps during World War II.

A journey into Wordsworth's mind and the process of creation

A millennium after its completion, an epic Persian poem is providing the springboard for a new centre of Persian studies in Cambridge.

Examples of the world’s oldest science and literature – 2,500-year-old clay writing tablets – hold clues as to how ancient scholars acquired and used knowledge, as Dr Eleanor Robson explains.

Art historian Professor Paul Binski describes his ventures into the gold-embellished world of illuminated manuscripts.

An academic industrial consortium is developing the scientific know-how to underpin a printing revolution.

Close scrutiny of text is the bedrock of a research culture that spans practically the whole range of contemporary English studies.